Memorable goal celebrations

Memorable goal celebrations

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Craig Bellamy

As some Liverpool players enjoyed a karaoke night in Portugal prior to a Champions League tie at Barcelona in 2007, a drunken argument got out of hand as Bellamy later threatened team-mate John Arne Riise with a golf club. Remarkably, both players then scored as Liverpool won 2-1 in the Nou Camp and Bellamy celebrated by running to the corner flag and enacting a golf swing.

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Paul Gascoigne

The build-up to England's Euro 96 campaign was overshadowed as pictures of players on a drunken night out in Hong Kong prior to the tournament hit the press. Most infamously they featured Gascoigne with his shirt ripped and various players having drinks poured into their mouths while sitting on a "dentist's chair". When Gascoigne scored a memorable goal against Scotland, he lay down and beckoned team-mates to mimic the pictures by squirting water into his mouth.

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Robbie Fowler

When Liverpool striker Fowler scored in the Merseyside derby against Everton in 1999, he ran to the touchline, dropped to his hands and knees and pretended to snort it. Manager Gerard Houllier claimed he was pretending to eat the grass, but really it was in response to the goading of Everton fans and various false rumours in the city about him abusing drugs. It landed him in trouble with both the club and the Football Association.

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Peter Crouch

Crouch earned a cult following among England fans by celebrating his goals in friendlies ahead of the 2006 World Cup by performing some 1980s-style robotic disco moves. He then vowed to put the robot away until England won the World Cup but then in 2009 comedian James Corden memorably lambasted several of the team for their under-achievement in a Comic Relief sketch. He told Crouch he seemed to have "lost faith in the robot" and should bring back an improved version in which he could "pull out the rope". After scoring in a World Cup qualifier against Ukraine, Crouch duly obliged.

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Jimmy Bullard

Hull midfielder Jimmy Bullard re-enacted manager Phil Brown's infamous half-time on-pitch team-talk after scoring at Manchester City in 2009. In the previous year's corresponding fixture, the Tigers had been 4-0 down at half-time and Brown sat his players down in a public attempt to rouse them, which ultimately backfired as Brown was lampooned. "Great comedy is about timing," said Brown of Bullard's celebration, although possibly through gritted teeth.